Introduction

Sapphire Radeon RX 7700 XT Pulse is the company's cost-effective custom-design rendition of AMD's swanky new performance segment graphics card being launched today. We are celebrating the double launch of the new RX 7700 XT and RX 7800 XT, be sure to check out our extensive coverage of 9 graphics card reviews on launch day. The Sapphire Pulse family of graphics cards is designed for those who want a Radeon RX graphics card that they can just install and forget about. There are no flashy product aesthetics or LED lighting, but you get a card that's compact, and which you can easily maintain over a long period of time.



The new Radeon RX 7700 XT is designed for maxed out 1440p gaming, just like the RX 7800 XT, but at a more attractive price-point, with prices starting at $450. You have all the muscle you need for AAA and e-sports gaming at 1440p, or high refresh-rate 1080p gaming. The RX 7700 XT is based on the latest RDNA 3 graphics architecture, which brings you generational performance improvements, new features such as AI acceleration and multi-draw indirect accelerator; and next-generation energy efficiency thanks to the new 5 nm foundry process where it matters.

The RX 7700 XT is carved out of the same Navi 32 chiplet GPU as the RX 7800 XT. Much like the Navi 31 GPU powering the RX 7900 series, the Navi 32 sees the GPU's main graphics rendering and number crunching machinery located on a centralized 5 nm die called the graphics compute die (GCD), surrounded by four dies that each contain a 16 MB segment of the GPU's Infinity Cache, and a 64-bit portion of the GPU's memory interface. The RX 7700 XT is configured with three out of four MCDs, which gives it 48 MB of Infinity Cache, and a 192-bit wide memory interface, which drives 12 GB of 18 Gbps GDDR6 memory, yielding 432 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

The 5 nm GCD of the RX 7700 XT is configured with 54 RDNA 3 compute units, which work out to 3,456 stream processors, 108 AI accelerators, 54 Ray accelerators, 216 TMUs, and 96 ROPs. AMD runs the GPU at 2171 MHz game clocks, and 2544 MHz boost. Internally, the GPU's front-end runs at 10-15% higher clocks than the shader engines. Sapphire has configured the RX 7700 XT Pulse with a power limit of 230 W.

The Sapphire RX 7700 XT Pulse features a simple aluminium fin-stack based cooling solution that's ventilated by a pair of axial flow fans. Sapphire designed the cooler such that you can disassemble the cooler shroud holding these fans without disturbing the heatsink underneath, so you can periodically clean the fans. Besides this, as we mentioned earlier, the design focus really is to give the gamer a quiet card that's easy to install. The card is easy on the pocket, too, priced at the AMD MSRP of $450.

Short 10-Minute Video Comparing 9x RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT

Our goal with the videos is to create short summaries, not go into all the details and test results, which can be found in our written reviews.